A great rainbow

[ana]

A great rainbow

The past 1st of May I was in my parent's home in the mountain, in the northern part of Catalonia, and this wonderfull rainbow unfolds before us, I took a picture with my mobile and couldn't take the whole,I finally found the cable to pass the picture to the computer and here you are... it was magnificent, colorfull and remained about an hour before us I never seen it before.

I have decided use it in my profile.

 

[Pierre]

It's beautiful!

And actually it's a double rainbow that is quite rare :

Occasionally, a second, dimmer, and thicker secondary rainbow is seen outside the primary bow. Secondary rainbows are caused by a double reflection of sunlight inside the raindrops, and appear at an angle of 50°–53°. As a result of the second reflection, the colours of a secondary rainbow are inverted compared to the primary bow, with blue on the outside and red on the inside. The dark area of unlit sky lying between the primary and secondary bows is called Alexander's band, after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it.

 

[ana]

It's beautiful!

And, in this picture there is only the half part, but in that moment seeing all the rainbow in its splendor, was a great contemplative experience.

And actually it's a double rainbow that is quite rare :

Occasionally, a second, dimmer, and thicker secondary rainbow is seen outside the primary bow. Secondary rainbows are caused by a double reflection of sunlight inside the raindrops, and appear at an angle of 50°–53°. As a result of the second reflection, the colours of a secondary rainbow are inverted compared to the primary bow, with blue on the outside and red on the inside. The dark area of unlit sky lying between the primary and secondary bows is called Alexander's band, after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it.

I didn't know that, Thank you :)

 

[anart]

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Hi diogene, since this is an English forum, perhaps you could be externally considerate and explain why you want people to visit the website? Just posting links to a website is not very helpful.